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Economy => Gambling => Topic started by: icanscript on January 15, 2018, 06:09:03 PM



Title: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: icanscript on January 15, 2018, 06:09:03 PM
Gone are the days when the world of gambling was limited only to gaming rooms and casinos, and this is clearly evident from the trends in the online field.
So in various social networks and mobile applications, we are offered applications in the style of gambling.Is it legal?


Title: Re: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: icanscript on January 15, 2018, 06:17:17 PM
Unlike online casinos and bitcoin casinos where everything is anonymous. On social networks it is easy enough to determine that the account belongs to an underage child.


Title: Re: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: actmyname on January 15, 2018, 07:05:44 PM
Unlike online casinos and bitcoin casinos where everything is anonymous on social networks it is easy enough to determine that the account belongs to an underage child.
Is it, though? Unless you enforce a KYC policy (similar to that of a casino) you can't really know. And in that case, there's no real point to doing it. It would make gambling more accessible to underage consumers, which is not desirable.

We already have people hooked on different kinds gambling nowadays with some mobile games and loot boxes everywhere now.

Given how people can easily lie about their identity (taking pictures from the internet is as easy as writing an email) it seems a little unethical to allow gambling to be a part of such a medium. Imagine going on Twitter and having a little slot machine in the bottom-right.


Title: Re: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: Maxiim on January 15, 2018, 08:11:08 PM
Have you seen the pages in FB teenagers? They do not hide or anything on their pages - this generation of Realty Show.


Title: Re: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: Tenderino on January 15, 2018, 09:59:00 PM
If you play for play money it is surely legal! :D Sorry, but I am not able understand how this social gambling is working? I mean you usually need a central party that has contracts with the gaming software providers and manage the deposits and withdrawals, or is this somehow based on blockchain technology?


Title: Re: Applications in the style of gambling, offered in social networks
Post by: tabas on January 15, 2018, 10:07:05 PM
Unlike online casinos and bitcoin casinos where everything is anonymous. On social networks it is easy enough to determine that the account belongs to an underage child.
You can't determine a social network account which belongs to an adult, teenager or an underage child. It isn't "easy" to know who are real ones and the fake ones. Creating accounts on social networks doesn't even need a verification in real life information, just a single click on email for verification.

we are offered applications in the style of gambling.Is it legal?
What application is this?